Ariane 5 ECA

Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

Arianespace launch of a
Ariane 5 ECA Rocket

Arianespace was scheduled to launch a Ariane 5 ECA rocket as part of the
Hot Bird 7 & Stentor mission. The launch window for the Communications mission was on Wed, Dec 11th, 2002, 5:21 PM EST from Ariane Launch Area 3, Kourou. The status of the launch was Failed.
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Mission

Hot Bird 7 & Stentor

Hot Bird 7 was a French communications satellite for direct to home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit at a longitude of 13 degrees East. Stentor is an experimental programme to validate technologies to be integrated into the next generation of telecommunications spacecraft.